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Yablochkov candle
Yablochkov candle A Yablochkov candle (sometimes electric candle) is a type of electric carbon ...
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Candle
Candle Are soy candles cleaner burning? Use of candles in spiritual ceremony National Candle Association of the U.S. Sources of ... Nernst lamp | Sulfur lamp | Xenon flash lamps | Yablochkov candles | Sonoluminescence
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Pavel Yablochkov
Pavel Yablochkov Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov (Павел Николаевич Яблочков in Russian) ((September 14 ... Russian electrical engineer, the inventor of the Yablochkov candle (a type of electric carbon arc lamp ... in Petersburg. After serving in the army, Yablochkov retired to Moscow in 1873, where ...
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Street light
... lighting employed arc lamps, initially the 'Electric candle', 'Jablochoff candle' or 'Yablochkov candle' developed by the Russian Pavel Yablochkov in 1875. This was a carbon ...
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Arc lamp
... the 1870s that lamps such as the Yablochkov candle were more commonly seen. In 1877, the ... movie-related topics Tesla patents Léon Foucault Yablochkov candle Pavel Yablochkov Walther Nernst František Křižík References Braverman, ...
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Light bulb   (translated from Italian)
... the light bulb electrical worker; 1876 Pavel Yablochkov it invents to candle of Yablochkov, the first lamp to arc with electrodes ... generating one and without shadows. Correlated voices Candle Lamp Filament lamp Discharge lamp Fluorescent lamp ...
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Kerosene lamp
... works in a similar way to a candle. This type of lamp is also known ... and is not much brighter than a candle. Wick lamps can also be quite smelly ... indoors. It is often sold in the candle section of many supermarkets. However, due to ... Nernst lamp | Sulfur lamp | Xenon flash lamps | Yablochkov candles | Sonoluminescence
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Gas lighting
... Earth in Lancashire taking Fire, by a Candle approaching to it. Imparted by Thomas Shirley ... fire, by coming in contact with a candle, as it escaped from a fracture in ... Nernst lamp | Sulfur lamp | Xenon flash lamps | Yablochkov candles | Sonoluminescence
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List of Russians
... Zworykin (1899-1982), coinventor of television Pavel Yablochkov, electrical engineer, inventor of Yablochkov candle Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982 ...
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Timeline of lighting technology
... patents the electric light bulb. 1876 Pavel Yablochkov invents the Yablochkov candle, the first practical carbon arc lamp, for ...
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